EP0380723B1 - Procédé pour séparer des gaz contenant de l'azote avec un système d'adsorption à pression alternée - Google Patents

Procédé pour séparer des gaz contenant de l'azote avec un système d'adsorption à pression alternée Download PDF

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EP0380723B1
EP0380723B1 EP89101638A EP89101638A EP0380723B1 EP 0380723 B1 EP0380723 B1 EP 0380723B1 EP 89101638 A EP89101638 A EP 89101638A EP 89101638 A EP89101638 A EP 89101638A EP 0380723 B1 EP0380723 B1 EP 0380723B1
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  • This invention relates to a process for separating nitrogen gas by the pressure swing adsorption system (hereinafter referred to as "PSA system”). More particularly, it relates to a process for separating nitrogen gas of extremely high purity from a raw material gas mixture predominantly composed of nitrogen and oxygen, for example air, by means of an adsorber (adsorption bed) packed with a carbon (carbonaceous) molecular sieve (hereinafter referred to as "CMS”) as an adsorbent.
  • PSA system pressure swing adsorption system
  • CMS carbon (carbonaceous) molecular sieve
  • the purity of nitrogen gas obtainable in practical processes using the PSA system is generally said to be at most 99.0% in the case of atmospheric pressure regeneration and at most 99.9% in the case of reduced pressure regeneration. It is regarded as difficult to separate nitrogen gas with a purity of 99.9% or higher in an economic manner by said system. It is a matter of course that any apparatus in which nitrogen gas having a high purity of more than 99.99% can be obtained is not known as yet.
  • the separation of nitrogen gas by the PSA system is advantageous in that nitrogen gas can be readily obtained at low cost and by relatively simple mechanisms but the product nitrogen gas has a limited range of applications because of its low purity.
  • the purity may be increased by addition of a purification apparatus, but with many demerits, as mentioned above.
  • DE 33 38 494 A1 discloses an adsorption process using a PSA system wherein subsequent to an adsorption phase the pressure in the adsorber is equalized via three pressure equalizing lines to an adsorber in which the regeneration is complete in such way that the respective inlet, outlet and middle portions of the adsorbers used are connected to each other.
  • EP 0 121 042 A3 discloses a PSA process for the separation of nitrogen gas from pressurized air utilizing two adsorbers packed with CMS, and operable under the pressure swing adsorption system, which comprises the steps of:
  • CMS carbon molecular sieve
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of an apparatus for nitrogen gas separation by the PSA system in which adsorber regeneration is carried out by means of a vacuum pump.
  • a PSA system to which the present invention is applicable comprises the following constituent members: a plurality of adsorbers each packed with a carbon molecular sieve, a product stock tank for storing nitrogen gas separated, a vacuum pump, and pipelines and valves for connecting these members.
  • the raw material gas supply is switched from one adsorber to another at certain time intervals, so that nitrogen gas can be obtained almost continuously.
  • the gas in the adsorber in which the adsorption is complete is depressurized by discharge into the atmosphere or the adsorber is further evacuated by means of a vacuum pump, whereby the gases adsorbed are desorbed and the carbon molecular sieve is regenerated.
  • the gas remaining in the adsorber and having a high nitrogen gas concentration is transferred to another adsorber in which the regeneration is complete.
  • said adsorbers are brought into simultaneous communication of the product nitrogen outlet of the one adsorber with that of the other (hereinafter referred to as "upper communication") and of the raw material gas inlet of the one adsorber with that of the other (hereinafter referred to as "lower communication"). Since the gas transfer is generally carried out until the pressures in both adsorbers become equal to each other, this procedure is referred to as equalization.
  • the prior art process which gives nitrogen gas having a maximum purity involves pressure equalization by connecting the adsorber inlets to each other and the adsorber outlets to each other. In that case, a decrease in space velocity results in a decrease in oxygen concentration in nitrogen gas but there is a certain limit to the decrease in said oxygen concentration; the purity of nitrogen gas cannot reach more than 99.99%.
  • the present inventors made intensive investigations into the relationship between the nitrogen gas purity and the combination of various conditions in a process comprising discontinuing the gas transfer before the inside pressures in both adsorbers become equalized while varying the ratio between the gas transfer flow rates on the inlet and outlet sides and, as a result, found that nitrogen gas products having remarkably high purity can be obtained within a certain specific range of combination of such conditions.
  • the present invention has been completed on the basis of this finding.
  • the present invention provides a process for separating at least 99.99% pure nitrogen gas from a pressurized raw material gas mixture containing more than 78% of nitrogen gas by volume, oxygen and small amounts of other gases by the PSA system as mentioned hereinabove, which comprises the steps of:
  • the pressurized raw material gas mixture enters adsorber 1 (adsorber A) via valve 5.
  • adsorber 1 adsorber A
  • Oxygen and other components to be removed are adsorbed on a CMS packed in the adsorber, and the thus-separated product nitrogen enters product tank 3 via valve 9 and is stored temporarily in said tank and then consumed.
  • the pressure in said adsorber influences the purity of product nitrogen.
  • the adsorber 1 (adsorber A) in which the adsorption step is complete and the adsorber 2 (adsorber B) in which the reduced pressure regeneration step is complete are brought into upper communication and at the same time into lower communication by opening valves 11 and 12 following closure of valves 5 and 9 and the gas remaining in adsorber 1 (adsorber A) under elevated pressure and having a high nitrogen content is thus caused to migrate into adsorber 2 (adsorber B) under reduced pressure.
  • serial equalization means a gas transfer procedure which comprises bringing the product gas outlet of the adsorber in which the adsorption step is complete into communication with the raw material gas inlet of the adsorber in which the regeneration step is complete.
  • the gas flow rate in the lower communication portion is within the range of about 3 to about 30% of the gas flow rate in the upper communication portion and the orifices 15 and 16 serve to adjust these flow rates.
  • the flow back procedure is performed for the purpose of inhibiting formation of insufficiently separated nitrogen gas due to a great difference between the adsorber inside pressure and the pressure of raw material gas mixture in the initial phase of adsorption procedure rather than for the purpose of rinsing. Therefore, it is when, as a result of the back flow procedure, the gage pressure within adsorber 2 (B) has arrived at a level of about 50% or more, preferably 70% or more, of the maximum attainable gage pressure in the adsorption step that the adsorption procedure is started by opening the valve 7 and feeding the raw material gas mixture to adsorber 2 (B).
  • the capacity of product tank 3 should preferably be selected such that the gage pressure in product tank 3 can be maintained at a level not lower than about 70%, more preferably not lower than 80%, of the maximum gage pressure attainable in the adsorber in the adsorption step even during the period of outflow of product nitrogen gas for consumption at a constant rate and simultaneous back flow to adsorber 2 (B).
  • the regeneration of adsorber 1 (A) is carried out until the adsorption step in adsorber 2 (B) is completed, by opening the valves 6 and 13 following discontinuation of the adsorber-to-adsorber gas transfer, thus releasing the gas adsorbed and the gas remaining in said adsorber into the atmosphere until a pressure close to atmospheric pressure, then closing the valve 13, opening the valve 14 and evacuating said adsorber to a level within the range of about 0.2 bar (150 torr) and below, preferably 0.07-0.14 bar (50-100 torr), by means of vacuum pump 4. Thereafter, the adsorption and regeneration steps are repeated alternately in adsorber 1 (A) and adsorber 2 (B) in 180° phase shifts.
  • the optimum period for said regeneration procedure or for the adsorption procedure inclusive of the product nitrogen gas flow back process is within the range of about 90 to about 180 seconds as compared with 60-90 seconds in the case of prior art processes for producing 99.0-99.9% pure nitrogen using the same CMS.
  • the space velocity is an important dynamic index indicative of the efficiency of a nitrogen gas separation system based on PSA.
  • the space velocity is defined as the flow rate of product nitrogen (measured at standard conditions) per minute per unit volume of CMS under constant adsorption procedure, namely of CMS packed in one adsorber in the case of the present invention.
  • the performance characteristics of CMS itself has an influence on this characteristic.
  • the capacity required of the adsorber is great and, accordingly, the quantity of raw material gas mixture per unit quantity of product nitrogen increases because of an increase in quantity of gas released into the atmosphere, among others.
  • the effect is not confined to the adsorber but extends to the compressor for raw material gas mixture, the vacuum pump and so forth, making the whole equipment large-scaled and causing the cost of operation, in particular the electric fee, to increase.
  • the above situation becomes a fatal inhibitory factor to practical use of the process.
  • the space velocity should be not less than about 0.6 min ⁇ 1, preferably not less than 1.2 min ⁇ 1.
  • a PSA-based nitrogen gas separation apparatus as shown was used. Each adsorber was packed with a CMS showing an oxygen adsorption of 7.7 cm3/g in equilibrium at 25°C and one atmosphere and an oxygen/nitrogen adsorption ratio of 8.44 as measured after 60 seconds of adsorption.
  • Air pressurized to 9.31 bar (8.5 kg/cm2 (G)) was used as the raw material and the half-cycle period for adsorption or regeneration was 120 seconds.
  • the minimum pressure attained in the regeneration step was 10665.6 Pa (80 torr).
  • the gas transfer from the adsorber in which the adsorption step was complete to the adsorber in which the reduced pressure regeneration step was complete was carried out while the flow rate through the lower communication was adjusted to 6% of the flow rate through the upper communication.
  • the gas transfer was discontinued when the ratio of the absolute pressure in the gas receiving side adsorber to that in the gas supplying side adsorber became 0.25.
  • the time required for this gas transfer was 1.2 seconds.
  • product nitrogen was caused to flow back from the product tank to said receiving side adsorber for 0.2 second and, when the pressure in said adsorber arrived at 85% of the maximum gage pressure attained in the adsorption step, the feeding of raw material pressurized air was started.
  • the pressure in the product tank could be maintained at levels not lower than 85% of the maximum gage pressure attained in the adsorber under adsorption procedure.
  • the capacity of the product tank used was 4 times that of the adsorbers.
  • a PSA-based nitrogen gas separation apparatus comprising two adsorbers packed with CMS as shown in Fig. 1 was used and nitrogen was separated from air pressurized to 7.84 bar (7 kg/cm2 (G)) by performing alternately the adsorption procedure and the regeneration procedure under a reduced pressure of 10665.6 Pa (80 torr)(minimum achievable value).
  • the half-cycle period was 100 seconds.
  • the flow rate ratio in the gas transfer between the adsorber in which the adsorption step was complete and the adsorber in which the regeneration step was complete was equal.
  • the adsorber-to-adsorber gas transfer was discontinued when the absolute pressure ratio of the gas in receiving adsorber to supplying side adsorber was 0.42.
  • the product nitrogen qualities (in terms of residual oxygen concentration in ppm obtained in this procedure was 870 ppm.
  • the raw material air was fed at a rate such that the sum total of the quantity of gas transferred in the above manner and the quantity of product nitrogen caused to flow back from the product tank into the gas-receiving side adsorber corresponded to 80% of the whole gas quantity in said adsorber corresponding to the maximum pressure in the adsorber.
  • the product tank capacity was such that the gage pressure in the tank could be always maintained at levels not lower than 85% of the maximum pressure in each adsorber.
  • Other basic conditions were the same as in Example 1.

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  1. Procédé pour la séparation d'au moins 99,99 % de gaz d'azote pur à partir d'un mélange gazeux sous pression contenant plus de 78 % de gaz d'azote en volume, d'oxygène et de petites quantités d'autres gaz dans un appareil de séparation de gaz d'azote comprenant deux absorbeurs garnis d'un tamis moléculaire au carbone et pouvant fonctionner sous le système d'adsorption à variation de pression qui comprend les étapes consistant à :
    a) effectuer le transfert du gaz sous pression restant dans un adsorbeur A dans lequel l'étape d'adsorption est achevée à un adsorbeur B dans lequel l'étape de régénération sous pression réduite est achevée par une tuyauterie reliant l'entrée des gaz de matière première de l'adsorbeur A à l'adsorbeur B et simultanément par une conduite reliant la sortie d'azote du produit de l'adsorbeur A à celle de l'adsorbeur B sous pression réduite et interrompre le transfert avant que les deux adsorbeurs n'aient égalisé leur pression, le débit de transfert de gaz sur le côté communication d'entrée de gaz de matière première se situant dans la plage d'environ 3 à environ 30 % du débit du transfert de gaz sur le côté de communication de sortie d'azote de produit,
    b) puis mettre la sortie d'azote de produit de l'adsorbeur B en communication avec l'entrée d'une cuve de produit pour provoquer ainsi le reflux de l'azote de produit dans l'adsorbeur B, et lorsque la pression manomètre dans l'adsorbeur B atteint environ 50 % ou davantage de la pression manomètre maximum pendant l'étape d'adsorption, commencer l'étape d'adsorption en introduisant le mélange de gaz de matière première dans l'adsorbeur B, et
    c) effectuer l'étape de régénération dans l'adsorbeur A suivant l'interruption du transfert de gaz d'un adsorbeur à l'autre adsorbeur dans l'étape a), en libérant le gaz restant dans l'adsorbeur dans l'atmosphère dans le voisinage de la pression atmosphérique suivie de la mise sous vide jusqu'à environ 19998 Pa (150 torrs) ou au-dessous au moyen d'une pompe à vide,
       les étapes d'adsorption et de régénération étant alternativement répétées dans les adsorbeurs A et B, le temps nécessaire pour l'étape de régénération et pour l'étape d'adsorption y compris le processus de reflux d'azote de produit s'effectuant chaque fois dans la plage d'environ 90 secondes à environ 180 secondes.
  2. Procédé pour la séparation de gaz d'azote selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le transfert de gaz de l'adsorbeur A à l'adsorbeur B à l'étape a) est interrompu lorsque le rapport entre la pression absolue dans l'adsorbeur côté réception gaz B à la pression absolue dans l'adsorbeur A côté alimentation atteint la plage d'environ 0,10 à environ 0,70.
  3. Procédé pour la séparation de gaz d'azote selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel la période pour le transfert de gaz de l'adsorbeur A à l'adsorbeur B ne dépasse pas 2 secondes.
  4. Procédé pour la séparation de gaz d'azote selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 3, dans lequel la pression maximum atteinte à l'étape d'adsorption et de séparation du mélange de gaz de matière première est au moins d'environ 5,88 bars (5 kg/cm² (G)).
  5. Procédé pour la séparation de gaz d'azote selon la revendication 1, 2, 3 ou 4, dans lequel la vitesse spatiale est d'au moins 0,6 min⁻¹.
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